About a year after moving to Bainbridge in the late ‘80s, Chris Miller showed up at the Ray Williamson Pool and asked the cashier what kinds of diving boards it had.
“You know how to dive?” he was asked.
Miller replied that he’d been a competitive diver and coach for a number of years.
The cashier asked him to wait and disappeared.
“Five minutes later, a tall guy with arms down to his knees comes out, crosses his arms, and says, ‘I understand you know how to dive,’” Miller recalls, chuckling at the memory.

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UPDATE: With the Bainbridge girls basketball team trailing Liberty by five points with seven minutes remaining to play, Fab Rezayat ignited a scoring explosion that accounted for 26 points as the Spartans defeated the Patriots 60-51 on Tuesday afternoon. Rezayat scored 13 of her team-high 17 points in that span, including six of six from the foul line in the final minute. Natalie Berry added 12 and Alice Russell had 10.
The Spartans face second-ranked Rainier Beach on Saturday at 3:00 at Bellevue Community College.
Full details of Tuesday’s game will appear in Saturday’s Review.
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Facing a 6-foot-6 opponent in Eastside Catholic’s Sarah McKay, the BHS girls’ basketball played right into her hands.
Literally.

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The gymnastics team scored the second-highest point total in school history and Emily Roche set a school record in the vault, but it wasn’t enough to send the Spartans to Friday’s state meet as a team.
Instead, five girls from what coach Cindy Guy called “my best team ever” will compete in one or more individual events.

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Island sports fans who glanced at the headline in Sunday’s Seattle Times received a rude shock. “Gymnastics: Ballard wins first Metro League title,” it said.
The truth – which was accurately reported in the accompanying story – was that the BHS gymnastics team easily won the school’s first Metro League trophy in Saturday’s competition at Ballard, finishing with 172 points to the hosts’ 155.1.

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The boys basketball team led ninth-ranked Seattle Prep at 29-26 at halftime in Friday’s game on the strength of sinking five three-point shots. But Prep returned the favor in the second half, sinking several crucial treys to pull away 64-49.

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Sometimes, size matters.
With the girls basketball team trailing by two points on Tuesday at Eastside Catholic with just under two minutes remaining, the Crusaders’ 6-6 post Sarah McKay simply reached up above everyone else to snare a teammate’s missed shot and bank home what proved to be the winning points.

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From the moment that Dr. James Naismith hammered a pair of peach baskets onto the wall of the Springfield (Mass.) YMCA and invented basketball in 1891, millions of kids have shared the same dream.
Whether it’s a gym in Georgia or a Pennsylvania playground, a beachfront California court or an Arizona alley, youngsters are out shooting baskets, counting down “5…4…3…2…1” and draining walk-off jumpers to win that imagined “big game” in front of cheering fans.
For a fortunate few such as Michael Jordan – and BHS senior Travis Guterson – it actually happens.

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The wrestling team went beyond a perfect score against Cleveland on Tuesday.
The Spartans themselves scored the maximum possible 84 points, and a Cleveland wrestler who drop-kicked his headgear around the Spartan gym after disagreeing that he’d been pinned was assessed with a team penalty point, making the final match score 84 to (-1).

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It was the best of quarters, it was the worst of quarters.
With less than two seconds remaining in the second quarter of Friday’s game against Seattle Prep, Fab Rezayat hit a running five-foot hook shot and was fouled. She sank the free throw as the Spartans closed to within 34-31 of second-ranked Prep, winners of 13 straight after an early one-point loss to top-ranked Rainier Beach.

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Though the boys basketball team’s faint playoff hopes ended during the weekend’s games, they nearly upset ninth-ranked Seattle Prep 53-46 on Friday and hung close to fifth-ranked Ballard before falling 72-60 on Saturday.

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With very little fanfare, this year’s gymnastics team has not only accumulated the best record of any Spartan team so far this year – the girls are undefeated in six meets – but is also, as coach Cindy Guy says flatly, “the best team I’ve ever had here.”

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Several glasses of water were the key element as Seth Paradox became the only Spartan to reach the championship round of Saturday’s 19th Island Invitational.
With the water’s extra weight, the Spartan senior was a couple of ounces above 189 at the morning’s weigh-in. That meant he was technically in the 215 weight class, and therefore eligible to wrestle up a yet another weight at 275.

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